ANTI CRAP · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Now We Hear You, Now We See You

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-52, 54-69 and 88-103, and 1 more place -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
18/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
NOW WE HEAR YOU, NOW WE SEE YOU · BAR 37

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 18 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 90 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 90, 105 and 120 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Now We Hear You, Now We See You use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 47.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 37-52, 54-69, 88-103 and 105-120. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Now We Hear You, Now We See You hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED